Spiritualised are back with a new album Everything Was Beautiful their first since 2018. This is by no means a necessary record. They, more than anyone I can think of immediately are the example of a band who worked towards discovering a formula that worked for them and then repeated it with minor refinement thereafter.
This is by no means a criticism. They remain very, very good at what they do. Devotees of the band will be completely satisfied with htis. It does what you want them to do. A chilled, refined hymn of praise to one track really and the sentiments and sensibilities behind it.
That track pf course is Heroin by The Velvet Underground. But Everything Was Beautiful also ticks the other Spiritualised staples. Iggy, Stones, (Country Stones this time round on), Gospel, Rock & Roll, Spacy Jazz, euphoric ecstasy, being strung out and elegantly wasted, a British tradition of vaguely arisocratic or certainly well heeled decadence and self-indulgence going way back in time to the days of Lord Chatterton.
Seen on these terms, this is a very, very good record indeed. Jason Pierce, who has always been the guiding hand at Spiritualised wheel is a master at what he does and he does it again. I find it difficult to place within their canon not having listened to all of them and haing no intention to. It's another fine record in their tradition of fine records. It's also nice to hear them a bit happier with their lot for once They seem in pretty rude health in every respect imaginable.
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